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The next place I'll be covering in The US Explained is the District of Columbia! To all my subscribers from DC, please reply to fill me in on what I need to know about your home, such as unique food, traditions, places, some fun facts and local dialects and pronunciations! I can't promise everything will make it into the video, but I will try my best, and I'm looking forward to getting started!
One mistake is that T. F. Greene International Airport is in Warwick not Providence. The only reason why they say that it's in Providence is because nobody knows where Warwick is.
@@ferky123 And because the airport mainly exists to serve the Providence area
@@ferky123 There are lots of airports that aren't technically in their namesake city, since airports are almost never located in city centers. For instance, the airport with the abbreviation DCA is technically located in Arlington, Virginia, not in D.C. Warwick is actually closer to Providence than many airports that technically are in their namesake cities (like O'Hare and LAX, among others).
I would love to hear you speak a little bit about Mambo sauce. It is what seems to be a sweet ketchup based sauce that is popular in the local carryouts and locally based Fried Chicken restaurants throughout black neighborhoods in dc. The locals often smother or dip their chicken and french fries in Mambo sauce, and sometimes over fried rice as well. If you could find some real tangible information on it and touch on it in your coverage of DC I would be one of the happiest on earth! I miss Mambo so much and can't find it up in Schenectady New York
You did a good job. Well researched. There are a few mistakes, but overall nice work.
As a native Rhode Islander, one of the interesting things about the state's geography is that even though there's no mountains, it is hilly enough so that the elevation gets up to a few hundred feet pretty fast; in some places only 10 or 20 miles from the coast. So in the winter during nor'easters, you have these major cutoffs in snow accumulations. It's not uncommon in some of these storms for the immediate coast to receive mostly rain as the milder air over the ocean keeps the coastal towns wet while places just a handful of miles to the north get a foot or more of heavy, wet snow thanks to the upsloping on the hilly terrain. All this happens within the borders of the same little state.
Also, you did a fantastic job with this video. Well done!
From Warwick - Between Buttonwoods/Apponaug area if you are familiar. Toll Gate HS Class of 04. You?
Yes, but the geographic location of New England has a role as well. Because New England is the northernmost and easternmost part of the Lower 48, we can get stiff Arctic winds and cold weather any time of the year. I recall that 1982 was one of the coldest summers on record (having also been influenced by the eruptive activity of Mount St. Helens). There were quite a few nights when the temperature dropped into the 40s and 50s.
But, at the same time, New England also sticks out into the Atlantic Ocean, so the gulf stream often sends us warm water and/or warm air from the Caribbean Sea. (The Appalachian Mountains also deflect those warm air currents in our direction.) Thus, it is not unusual to get temperatures in the 50s and 60s during the winter.
It was great..I went to Exeter/ west Greenwich schools as a kid..we always got the snow days!!!
@@davidlafleche1142 I remember even in august..when it was Washington county fair time..you always had to take a jacket because the temp could dip pretty low..mid to hi 50s after sundown
@@robertdias7116 NO SCHOOL FOSTER/GLOCESTER. I grew up in Warwick. Attended Toll Gate HS. Pilgrim and Warwick Vets are the other high schools but Vets is now the JHS for both the Pilgrim and Vets kids then half are sent to TG and half Pilgrim when HS begins. Population decline. Cranston is soon becoming the 2nd most populous city instead of Warwick. Hendricken HS is there too but kids from all over go there since its a private school. We always had to end our unsuccessful football seasons getting our ass handed to us on Thanksgiving Day. Atleast we ate good after getting beaten up and blown out. My sopphmore year a guy named Wil Blackmon was a senior at Hendricken who played for 4 NFL and 2 CFL teams. Drafted in 06 by the Packers. Was a 5 star recruit coming out of HS. Big schools wanted him but he stayed local and went to Boston College.
Rhode Island is an incredibly underrated state. I have a lovely time whenever I go
I grew in Eastern CT and as a teen we used to go to the beaches in the summer. Also surf fishing was fun.
Only in the summer. Sucks otherwise.
RI is a shithole!
I can't wait to go, especially now! I've never been up in New England but at some point I'm going to try a road trip to hit all its states. I bet biking is huge up there so I'd have a good time.
As someone who's lived in Rhode Island their entire life, only like 5% of the state is actually nice, the rest is just mind numbingly boring
As a Rhode Islander, every single time you said anything that consisted of measurements more than 20 miles and 30 minutes, my heart sank
You forgot to mention that Rode Island is the state where one of the most significant, more influential horror/terror/sci-fi writers was born: Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Born in 1890 in Providence, considered by many as the father of the Cosmic Horror genre and creator of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Yup, H.P. Lovecraft lived not too far down the street from my grandmother and her family. Another famous horror/terror writer like Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, also enjoyed visiting the Rhode Island Athenaeum!
Let's not forget that H.P Lovecraf t was a horrific racist and antisemite. He named his cat the N word and tormented and abused his Jewish wife her entire life.
He was a bad person.
This was one of the first things I learned when I moved to Rhode Island.
Don't look up his cat's name.
@@alfalfabillenjoyer4878 Everyone already knows.
Dude was a gifted writer, a strong supporter of workers' rights, but also a horrifically virulent racist.
I found bloodborne ps4 game case on H.P lovecraft’s grave. The game was heavily influenced with his horror stories.
Ay Lois, our state is up!
Is that you ocular?!
@@williamhewitt4748 yes
I read this in peters voice lmao
I'm proud of him, no mention of Family Guy and/or 'chowdah' yet...
cursed youtube comment 10/10
Ayo! Local Rhody here! Glad to see my home state was covered.
One other thing about Little Rhody I should add, is that there are a lot of hidden little gems scattered all over the place most people wouldn't know about unless you knew or explored. Such as the Kinney Azalea Gardens in South Kingstown, the Fantastic Umbrella Factory in Charlestown or the many Audubon locations or reserves and trails compacted in. Definitely recommend you look to visiting some of these places, should you come up to RI sometime.
You stated that TF Green airport is in Providence. It is actually two cities over in the city of Warwick.
Accurate, however it's considered Providence airport for all intents and purposes. Hence the PVD designation with the FAA.
That's typical. Do you know where the Sanfrancisco Airport (SFO) is located at?
I laugh every time the plane says welcome to Providence even though you're in Warwick. 😅
No, he actually said "near Providence".
@@pengooczar2470 The Cincinnati, OH airport is actually in KY. The finally changed the name to include northern KY.
My wife and I were born,raised,and still live in Rhode Island and we feel you did a flawless job with your video. Thank you!
Born, raised, and still lives in RI - He goes by Tex🤣 Reminds me of that scene from Forrest Gump when he was speaking about his platoon. There was Cleveland, from Detroit, Tex he was from Oklahoma and so on...
From Warwick born & raised. Apponaug/Buttonwoods area but now live in Mass
@@rantsinarobe4099 It’s my last name shortened. It’s what everybody calls me
Quick little fun facts. Bristol has the nations oldest 4th of July celebration.
There use to be a Fall River RI and a Pawtucket MA. the cities were swapped and merged with the other state equivalent in a supreme court case.
Also MA uses the term bubbler as well.
I love Bristol!
I did not know that about pawtucket. I live there now
@@WoodT92 the river is the old boarder
thats where im from
to be fair, fall river does feel more like RI. even the architecture is more similar to RI vs Mass
RI has 2 world class deep harbor seaport cities in Providence & Newport; able to dock the largest vessels.
And it has some third world cities like Pawtucket and Central Falls, still connected to the water
As a lifelong Rhode Islander I think you did a great job with this video. Thank you!
To be clear, the Burning of the Gaspee occurred off Warwick, not Providence
Gaspee point in the In the Governor Francis farms to be exact
@@dorego3658 The Gaspee grounded at the Conimicut shoal. At low tide there is no way the Gaspee would have made it across the sandbar and up to present day Gaspee point. In adition to that, there is no where at Gaspee point for a ship to ground it self.
Warwick is close enough to Providence 😝
Anything that happens in Warwick somehow becomes providence, like how the main airport is in “providence” , but really it is in Warwick.
@@Marissa_Explains_It_All It's like that in basically every airport though. The NYC airport isn't actually in NYC. Etc. And Warwick is so close to Providence, it's much better to communicate "off of Providence" than "off of Warwick"
Just to be complete, I grew up in the Fall River area of Massachusetts (about 20 minutes east of Providence, R.I.) We also called a water fountain a bubbler.
Displaced Native Rhode Islander here - As a quick aside - nobody refers to Washington County as that outside of when the Washington County Fair is held (usually sometime in August). You're way more likely to hear it as "South County" in any capacity other than official ones. Oh, and RI houses the Boston Bruins' minor league affiliate in Providence - the Providence Bruins. We used to have the Pawtucket Red Sox (the Boston Red Sox' minor league affiliate) as well until 2020 - when they were poached and (poorly) renamed by Worcester in neighboring Mass.
Another displaced Rhode Islander came here to say the exact same thing. "It's South County, ffs."
Then why don't you just rename it South County lol, like the name of your state was changed? South County sounds cool.
@@Awakeningspirit20 One does not merely change the name of somewhere that has existed since the old magic was written...
Came here to mention the Providence Bruins, too, haha!
@@Awakeningspirit20 it's to confuse tourists 🤣
Right on the 4th of July you finish the 13 colonies.
AWESOME!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🎇✨🎇🇺🇸🇺🇸
Rhode Island started the American revolution with the burning of the Gaspee 1.5 years before the Boston tea party, the first amendment is based on Rhode Island laws, the US navy started here and the war College is still here. We have the best Sea food.
We definitely do not have the best seafood... Maryland or Louisiana is going to take that title.
@@benkempf maybe before the BP oil spill LOuisiana could of won. My bet is on Maine being best. Fresher cleaner ocean. We (RI) def don’t have the best seafood
@@benkempf as a lifelong rhode islander, hawaii has the best seafood
I was born in Bristol and have lived there my whole life. Thanks for this excellent video of our state!
Of course you have most Rhode Islanders don't venture far from their city of birth never mind the state
@@bubbayee-yee2799 that goes for a lot of people
@@tonycap49 Yes,...
alot of people from RI.
But nowhere else in the country are such a vast portion of the indigenous population of a state so fixated on and/or terrified (or simple minded) into never venturing out. To be so perfectly contented in a sedentary lifestyle where they were born. It's a sign of unimaginativeness and lack of intellectual acuity.
One thing you forgot on the political angle, is that JFK ran his Senate campaign, and later his Presidential Campaign, out of Providence Rhode Island (reasons for this vary, but since it was just a train ride off the central hub of Boston) made this an attractive, and far cheaper, place to run his political machine out of.
Also, Providence these days acts as more of a commuter hub to Boston, as the central train line in Providence connects to Boston, and many people commute to Boston using the Providence train station daily, as even with commuting costs, rents and mortgages as much cheaper than living in Boston or its suburb cities.
And finally, you missed out on talking about the Quahog (biggest variety of Clam) Stuffies (Stuffed and baked clams) Clam Cakes (Always Awesome) or Rhode Island Clam chowder, which is the original, and has a clear broth.
...Okay, should have looked up the community post for this one, my parents are from Rhode Island. Lotta stuff for a state I visited every summer as a kid to see my cousins and grandparents.
Living in Rhode Island isn't cheap. 2 bedrooms apartment is 1850 in Pawtucket of all places.
JFK got married in a church in Newport RI, for whatever thats worth
@@CamericaMuscle 2500-4000 in Newport, if you can find one. Many are going the Air BnB route, so fewer and fewer year leases every day
JFK couldn't get elected as a democrat today.
Another major company in Rhode Island is Textron, owner of Bell Helicopter, Cessna, Beechcraft, EZ-GO, and Lycoming. There's also Citizens Bank.
how about all the companies that left the state.
don't forget Hasbro
Electric Boat.
Properly pronouncing Pawtucket. Big props. The W is silent.
You forgot to mention Iggy's clam cakes and chowder, and Olneyville NY System wieners to your bit about dells and coffee milk, no mention of the rhode island red breed of chicken, or Providence Bruins, you also have Bryant, JWU, PC, CCRI, NETech, Salve Regina, RIC, Roger Williams, Navy War, and URI for colleges, trade schools, and Universities in RI, We're also the only state that celebrate VJ day.
I am fairly certain that the highest point in Rhode Island used to be Jerimoth Hill but is now the land fill (dump) in Johnston, RI.
I knew someone was going to mention the July 4th Bristol parade. The oldest in the nation. Overall a very good video on Rhode Island. Thank you.
I enjoy the videos but would love it if you fixed/normalized the audio quality
"Rogues Island" is the name given when Roger Williams fled there. It was called the "sewer of New England" or a "Licentious Republic", as well as the fact that Smuggling was its cornerstone method of commerce.
Rhode Island, also known as the land of lobstahs and mobstahs!
Piracy was frequent, including one Thomas Tew
A place for persons of distressed conscious.
Roger Williams..
Yup and still a cesspool!
Not much has changed in little Rouges Island. I lived there for about 14 years... I perfer to call the state "The Buttcrack Of New England"... I hated living there.
I wish he'd mentioned the large Armenian population. Not as big as the others, but really noticeable. I worked in Brown's humanities library one summer, a lot of the social and work related conversation was conducted in Armenian.
My Dad was in the Australian Navy and as a teenage kid we lived in RI for a year and I absolutely loved it ❤️👍
Born raised and still live in Providence. I never really realized how dense the population is compared to other states. Love living here because for the most part it’s driving distance to different areas ( hour from Boston, 45-1 hour from Connecticut, 3-4 hours from New York etc etc )
Rhode Island is one of the nicest places I have lived. Smallest state with biggest heart.
Me too ,I've lived all over the US & it just stands out along w/ its people as the most interesting & fun.I was an outsider from Cali & felt like I was part of a family.
Worst place I've ever lived, to include my time in Iraq! This state is (to use your words) smallest minds with biggest accumulation of human filth! Can't wait to leave and never come back!
Tf green is actually in Warwick, I’m right next to it and have to hear the planes alllll day ! It’s 100% not in providence :) !
Loved the video ❤️
As a transplant from Massachusetts( really just 6 miles from my childhood home), and as a resident of over 35 yrs. We here do not have mild winters. We get Arctic blasts (sub-zero Temps) and blizzards just about every winter.
Compared to northern New England, yes, RI's winters are pretty mild. NH, VT, and ME are the snowiest states in the country. MA is I think #5, after New York. RI isn't even in the top 10.
It's nowhere near a harsh winter compared to Maryland. I know a guy who "escapes" to RI from there in winter.
It really is mild, I had to clear the driveway once last winter..
Yeah, we do get them: about once a year. I was born and bred a Rhode Islander and Rhode Island is definitely the wimpy baby of New England winters. Most of the snow we get is either a sprinkle or just slush. After spending the school year in New York I can say with certainty that we have it easy.
We do not get a blizzard every year, we get snow just about every year, a blizzard maybe once every five years. We get next to nothing compared to Northern New England
FYI - the word bubbler for water fountain came from the way water dispensers (even today) bubble air into the bottle to replace the drawn water. Also, in RI the proper pronunciation is “bubblah”.
And there's several who don't have a clue what a bubbler is
It comes from a Kohler product that was sold exclusively in the RI area, and near three factory in....Wisconsin. That's why the two states share the term.
Let's not forget the father of horror who lived in Providence; HP Lovecraft. His grave is in Providence and on it is written "I am Providence"
Rhode Island pop culture moment: Bob Dylan gets booed off the stage for going electric at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.
Wow, did not know that. I went to a Blues Festival in Rhode Island in 1975, It was a weekend thing and my brother and i went on our motorcycles. It was a pretty big event on a farm just across the line from CT, where i grew up. That was a great summer, I was 22 just out of the Navy and screwed around all summer fishing up north even into Canada.
This is a fine compendium of facts about RI and, as a native, I am most proud of the state as the true birthplace of pluralism in the US that is still with us today. The colonists' insistence upon the addition of the Bill of Rights is the only aspect of our Constitution that most US citizens know about today. RI's central role in the slave trade, however, is part of its less-admirable past. This being said, you gave short shrift to Buddy Cianci, who is the most well-known and was the most significant modern politician we have produced. Love him or hate him, he is the principal reason the city of Providence looks as good as it does today. He made positive differences in RI despite his checkered personal past and his ethical lapses while in office and he loved the state, especially Providence.
Hey, hi, Rhode Islander here. The island next to aquidnick.. to be honest, is typically just called Jamestown, but that's just us being lazy and it being really the only thing on it
Yep. 👋 from "the island "
I loved this so much!!! I've lived in RI all of my life and you did such a fantastic job with this. Great photos too!!
The Big Blue Bug’s name is also Nibbles Woodaway! Also surprised Waterfire wasn’t mentioned
He mentioned waterfire, but only showed the braziers unlit
True but nobody calls it that. It's always 'The Big Blue Bug.'
The worst part of Rhode Island is the politics. They keep electing the same people in then complain about how things are run. 🤷♀️
OMG so true.
We're off on the road to Rhode Islaaaand~
Thank you for doing such nice coverage of my beloved state!!! Were were also the first independent nation (European origin) in the North American continent when we declared independence, albeit for only a little over 2 months. Also, thank you for ALMOST pronouncing our cities (Pawtucket) and cultural wording (quahog), correctly. You showed the braziers for Waterfire, but didn't mention that the internationally adopted events began here, but that's cool. Oh, Polish. While Chicago is probably the most Polish place in the US, RI, and esp Pawtucket, has a very large Polish community and represents a significant portion of our Roman Catholic presence. Again, thank you! RI has it's amazing charms and beauty and like all states, our dark past and present. So...Bravo on this video documentary of my beloved home! 👏👏👏
Polish people are among the smartest in the world. Pick any Polish guy at random. Chances are, he's playing chess, piano or sports.
couple fun facts my hometown of cumberland houses the oldest veterans memorial in the US, “Nine Men’s Misery”, currently the actor Richard Jenkins who most notably played the father in stepbrothers, and formerly the Farrelly brothers who made Dumb and Dumber, and we even have our own rock named after our lil town and only found here for the most part.
I found this to be well done. I've lived here all my life and feel you just about nailed it. The Bristol 4th parade is something that should have been on this. Also another fun fact we don't call the stuff you put on ice cream sprinkles they're called Jimmy's.
The Tennis HOF is in Newport.
The best chicken is a Rhode Island Red.
The countries oldest Boy Scout Reservation, Camp Yawgoog
The countries first Coastal Wind farm sits off of Block Island
The 4th of July parade in Bristol is the largest in the country.
Edgar Allen Poe.
Newport Jazz.
Fort Adams.
Fort Wetheral.
Used to grow potatoes. A lot of potatoes.
Has some of the countries oldest and biggest fishing fleets.
people from Rhode Island cannot pronounce a W or a hard R.
The Naval War College is in Newport.
The last manned light house by the Coast Guard is in Narragansett at Point Judith.
Providence College
URI.
Johnson & Wales University.
Coffee Milk
Rhode island also has the oldest carousel in America
Also the Providence Athenaeum (where Edgar Allen Poe did some courting/breakup) and Roger Williams Park.
Great video! Maybe mix your VO and music a little so the master volume matches, I was turning you up and the intro/outro down.
Well deserved thanks for another interesting video about a state with which I have a long association. Where I live now is about halfway between Boston and Providence, can be considered a suburb of both. Where I grew up is more to the north and is a bedroom suburb of Boston. In both places the water fountains were referred to as bubblers. Such terms as bubbler may be most common in one state [particularly in New England] but overlap, also grinder for sub sandwich, cabinette for milkshake made with ice cream, etc. I am particularly pleased that you go into the original inhabitants and provide maps of their territory, as they should not be forgotten or continually isolated. Thank you, again, for your excellent work.
As a native Rhode Islander. Thank you for pronouncing the towns correctly.
@0:42 awesome shot of Providence with a famous Mary Beth Meehan mural portrait. Her series Seen/Unseen around the city has been awesome. Sweet lady too!
From Providence, living now in SF,CA. I left after the blizzard of 1978. I don't miss the snow but I sure miss the seafood 🦞🦞. Every so many years I visit.
Same left 4 fla...after that blizzard 🥶
How interesting you put the 13th state on TH-cam on the 4th of July. Was that planned or just a coincidence?
It was a total coincidence! But very fitting
@@ThatIsInterestingTII yes, especially with that long parade in Bristol! I've been here 24 yrs. I think it's pretty well done!
A great 4th of July surprise, thank you!!
Newport is a lovely little historic city! I hope to go back soon.
You said HOPE!
Westerly>Newport
I moved to RI from upstate NY and I'm trying to fall in love with this tiny ocean state. Thank you for the history/geography lesson and helping me feel a little more connected to my new home ♥️🌊⚓
Seems like our biggest import are new yorkers.
@@fishmanandginne7495 Rochester winters are brutal, man 😂❄️
@@fishmanandginne7495 fr, that and people from mass.
Lived in RI most of my life you so a great job with this video,
Did such a great job
Little Rhodey! That's my home state! Coffee milk, Dels, on and on and on
Thank you for this video! I've been missing my home state recently and was pleasantly surprised to see this new video had been posted! I live overseas now, halfway across the world, but if I had chosen to stay in the United States, I would live nowhere other than Rhode Island. (Alas, the industry I wish to work in is not very strong in Rhode Island, hence one big reason I have not made my home there.) It's a special place, indeed, and I'm proud to introduce Rhode Island to the local people in the country I now live. (My introductions have inspired many people I've met here to want to travel to Little Rhody - which surprised me greatly, but made me more proud of such a tiny state with a huge heart.) Thanks once more!
Grew up in little rhodie people ask if I'm from new York because of my accent when I say Rhode island they have no idea where it is
Bubbler is also used in Massachusetts to describe a water fountain
The correct pronunciation of "Woonsocket" was unexpected.
Shows he really has spent time here!
Another Fun Fact: Providence Fire Dept is the 2nd oldest PAID fire dept. in the country.( Baltimore MD was the 1st). Also the Broad St Fire House in South Prov. was the busiest fire house in all of New England in the mid 80's.
There are no fast food restaurants in Newport, RI. The health care industry is probably the largest employer in RI.
Im from Barrington and we actually have a city ordinance against fast food. I suspect Newport has the same.
Back in the day when the Italian Mafia had a stranglehold on Rhode Island, my father claimed the state motto was "Everything falls off the truck in Rhode Island". One Mafia kingpin was finally nailed when it was proven that a refrigerator that he gave to his mother was stolen; of course it had fallen off the truck.
The one thing you didn't mention (that I wished you had) was the US navy's influence on Rhode Island, as (until about the Reagan era iirc) the US main naval fleet operated out of RI, and even to this day the Naval War College in RI is the predominant officer training establishment for the US Navy. Pretty interesting history with that place too, as foreign naval personnel have been historically trained at that war-college, such as the Nazi's (lil controversy always spices up the videos haha).
Actually, President Nixon arranged to shut down the Navy base at Quonset Point in 1973. It was long gone by the time Reagan was elected.
Further naval history, the Rhode Island Naval Militia was the first organized naval force in North America and predates the Continental Navy. FURTHER it was Rhode Island congressmen who drafted the bill to create the Continental Navy.
And it will never be the same as the 70's 80 or 90 . This place will never be the same .
The folk fest is amazing. Highly recommend renting a boat or hopping on someone's to watch the folk fest
Decent video outlining RI. The burning of the Gaspee is very rarely taught in schools in RI these days but is celebrated every year with a parade and a mock burning of the Gaspee at night on the second Saturday of June. The parade starts in Warwick and ends in Cranston. It passes through Pawtuxet Village, or colloquially referred to as the “village”. Many locals, myself included, take pride in the fact that the first major act of defiance against the crown took place in RI but it often gets minimized because well most people ogle over the Boston Tea Party.
We were also one of only two states to not ratify the 18th amendment (CT being the other) and the third to ratify the 21st
AYYYY RISD REP! Glad to see it getting the credit it deserves, all too often it’s left out when discussing Rhode Island, but it’s an integral part of the local culture.
20:19 that's Jersey City, looking out towards the Statue of Liberty and the Verazzano Narrows bridge, not Narragansett Bay and the Newport Bridge
Yup! Taken from, roughly, the top of the 50 Columbus Apartment building.
Seems appropriate for this video. Since, RI can't come up with it's own culture, other than shitty people, so it steals from Boston and NYC!
Don't move here
One of the worst states to live in the country in terms of food and availability of food, it's one of the biggest food deserts in the USA, 91% of a lower-income neighbourhoods are food deserts. Never move here unless and until you are about to retire.
I’m from Jersey and I’m up here about 5 years I absolutely agree. I can’t get a decent pizza or bagel and have to take the ride home to eat. I can’t wait to gtfo.
@@42042O lmaoooo yeah ok..Rhode Island has some of the best seafood and Italian restaurants in the country.
@@deezroastedchestnuts189 agreed. And to @harsh desai it’s one of the worst places to retire. Go to FL and you’ll find RI’ers scattered everywhere living the retiree life. They screw retirees on fixed incomes and what heck you talking about for food availability? Sounds like bs
@@deezroastedchestnuts189 Yes but it's all they have.
@@42042O Originally from Newark, NJ and I hate that I can't get Taylor Ham here (except MAYBE in the small 4 slice packages.) Seriously thinking of ordering by mail. But I do like RI.
One thing that is important and you missed is the history of food culture in Rhode Island. Specifically, haven brothers being the first food truck in the country. There is a wonderful documentary about it as well. Not to mention our favorite iconic food being hot weiners from NY System, featured prominently in many cooking shows. Showcased by the mayor of flavor town himself!
True, and the otigins of diners, too (though I actually miss diversity of foods here, and go crazy when in Boston or NY)
Clam chowder, Johnnycakes, clam cakes, cabinets, doughboys and "grindahs" are right up there.
I was born in Rhode Island and still live there today and I live in Cumberland
born and raised in ri and if there’s one misconception i hate that people have about rhoda is that it’s only good for its beaches and coastline it has soooo many hidden gems to offer if you look in the right places, which isn’t too hard considering at the very most they’re an hour apart. Also people assume we have this weird ass culture which i’ve almost never seen actually materialized my whole life here. Were pretty fuckin on par with normalcy in the rest of the country if not moreso depending who you ask, the one thing we all share in common however is our pride in being arguably the most unspoken of the Union, cuz it makes any sort of spotlight we get special. You wouldn’t believe how excited i get upon learning someone famous grew up in or has any connections to rhode island, or anytime we’re mentioned in media short of family guy.
Yeah I’m one of the only Rhode Islanders living in Silicon Valley. Most people don’t even know it’s a state. 🙄
I used to get that when I lived in Hawaii. They would always ask "Isn't that a part of NY?"
@@christopherturco650 Yes, exactly!
I didn’t know what it was before I moved here but then again I was 10
2nd highest point is the landfill (garbage dump) which nay some day eclipse jeromouth hill.
Wicked nice video :P I'm a native Rhode Islander and if you ever visit definitely try our coffee milk (our state drink) it's to die for! Del's lemonade is sold everywhere on street corners and at festivals and not mentioned in the video is our amazing Summer festivals called Waterfires! We light bonfires on the rivers in Providence at night. Paired with fire dancers, street performers and world music it's an amazing experience!
Lol, I know of a RIder who works at a chimp sanctuary out west. I sent him some packs of Dels. He got permission to dilute some and give the chimps Dels sno cones! 😅
dels is good. mr lemons is better
Boom and on Americas birthday too niiicccee
Actually with the Washington Bridge under construction over the Seekonk River, Bristol County is about 2 & 1/2 hours away from Providence. LOL
Oh & the Big Blue Bug also has another name, Nibbles Woodaway.
if you say Washington county to a Rhode islander we will know you are an outsider. it's south county.
Even the newscaster's use South county when giving the weather report
RI city designation is also crazy. We have North Providence, East Providence cities. South Providence is not a city but a section of Providence. Don't have a West Providence city but we have the West End section of Providence. There is also the 'East Side', a part of Providence (but is not the city East Providence.)
Despite losing the PawSox to Worcester, we used to have the Providence Grays, who won the National League in 1879 & 1885.
Played in 2 stadiums: Messer Grounds in Olneyville and Melrose Park in Elmwood near RW Zoo.
The team disbanded after 1885 due to financials, however today the Grays play in an old time base ball league with rules from the 1860s-1880s.
With roots in Portuguese, Irish and Dominican, Rhode Island at one point had a large French population. Frenchtown in North Kingstown (Rhode Islanders will know of), is an example, besides well known Woonsocket. French huguenots escaped persecution from Europe throughout the 17th & 18th centuries and settled in RI. Gabriel Bernon, French huguenot, became a successful merchant in RI and died in Providence. Bernon Heights of Woonsocket is named in his honor by two of his descendants.
And the polish
We call Washington county south county, and dont really use "counties" at all.
Oh and you're welcome for the bill of rights and all
Quonsett Point. Stupid autowrong
Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty by John M. Barry (Author)
As a native Rhode Islander thank you this was so cool. Also most common question from people outside the state “is that part of Long Island?” Smh
The Rhode Island flag is based on a quote from scripture. Hebrews 6-19 "Hope we have as the anchor of the soul."
A lot of movies and shows are filmed in Rhode Island as well. Dumb and Dumber and Moonrise Kingdom to name two really good ones! :)
Tax breaks
The popular horror series based on the Conjuring is based on a true story that happened in Rhode Island. The house where it happened was just recently sold AGAIN because the residents were having issues with weird stuff happening.
Fun fact: The tallest building, “The Superman Building” is currently abandoned because of the asbestos
Rhode Island is my state. HOPE HOPE HOPE HOPE HOPE HOPE HOPE HOPE HOPE! I REPRESENT RHODE ISLAND! HOPE
I am 13th generation direct descendant of Roger Williams. Born in Providence. Though i was transplanted to SC just shy of 10, I am very fascinated in my history ❤
The term plantation as it was used had nothing to do with farms. Providence plantations was named as such for the people who transplanted themselves there from other colonies, specifically Roger Williams and his followers.
Plantation was synonymous with colony back then.
You forgot to mention that Rhode island is the only colony to not murder or displace the local tribes when settling and that a group from Massachusetts went into Narragansett and slaughtered the tribe in their winter resting place to start a conflict with tribe and the RI settlers.
But they did displace the male members of the Narragansett during the war, fearing an uprising
23:11 How come coffee milk isn't popular (or even available for that matter) outside New England?
I was hoping he'd bring up Camp Yawgoog, but really solid video otherwise.
Great video!
Interesting fact is that working class Woonsocket, Rhode Island, a textile mill town on the Blackstone River once had the highest percentage of French Canadians in any city within the USA and French was spoken on Main Street in shops until well into the late 1950 and early 1960s.
That said, Rhode Island is a place where public corruption, taxes and the cost of living are very high and where rich folks live on the east side or Providence or along the Narragansett bay and the rest of the communities are often much less affluent and feature generational poverty and high chronic unemployment and very few local high school kids matriculate at Brown University and escape life in the lower classes and while Rhode Island is expensive, the nice communities in Massachusetts are even more expensive such that young adults with good job prospects looking for an affordable place to start a family and buy a home often must emigrate to the Midwest or South where housing costs are 50 percent lower or more.
Great Italian and Portuguese food and very nice beaches but a very class driven society where your identity and job prospects depend very much on your family background, social class and education.
Rhode Island is a great place to live while a child but it offers relatively few career opportunities for professionals and most ambitious smart kids who have an opportunity leave for college and/or jobs and never return. It is a very expensive place to live compared to the Midwest and South with home prices nearly double what they cost in a place like St. Louis or Kansas City.
To own a large two story home on a large tree covered lot in Rhode Island with two Jaguars in the drive way would be out of reach for most young professionals who live Rhode Island but in a place like Ohio or Missouri or Wisconsin, it is much easier to find opportunities in fly over country and live large in affluent suburbs than it is to do so in Rhode Island. Yeah, the beaches and he seafood are truly great, but the cost of living is a killer just as it is in Hawaii and California.
surprised you didn't mention that providence is on the MBTA's commuter rail or regional rail going straight to multiple train stations in downtown Boston. It is possible to live in Providence and work in Boston without a car
Hey, you forgot that they have the worst drivers. They never use their blinker and they swing wide right to make a left turn!
Oh my God I am so tired of people who need 3 lanes to make any kind of a turn!
They used to be a badass no shits given to others now they fall in line like a pet (ironic coming from Micha)
What does that even mean
Great video!! can't wait for the great state of Indiana